What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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